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La connoissance des temps, ou, Calendrier et ephemerides du lever & coucher du soleil, de la lune, & des autres planetes : les vrais lieux de ces planetes, tant en longitude qu'en latitude : plusieurs autres tables d'astronomie : calculées pour Paris, pour l'année 1689 : avec la maniere de s'en fervir és autres elevations : plus, une methode pour la construction de toutes sortes de quadrans ou horloges solaires ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QB7 .L44 1689
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Fèvre, Jean, 1650-1706.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Ephemerides--Early works to 1800.
- Ephemerides.
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Nautical almanacs--Early works to 1800.
- Nautical almanacs.
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 98, that is, 99 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, chart, tables ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Manufacture:
- A Paris : De l'imprimerie d'Antoine Lambin.
- Other Title:
- Connoissance des temps
- Calendrier et ephemerides du lever & coucher du soleil, de la lune, & des autres planetes
- Fingerprint:
- yen- 31m. 30e. 3130 (3) 1689 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Estienne Michallet ..., [1689]
- Notes:
- Printer and date from colophon.
- Attributed to Jean Le Fèvre by a bookseller's description prepared by Roger Gaskell Rare Books in a copy at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania.
- "Explication des figures dont on se sert dans cet ouvrage": p. 1.
- "Methode pour la construction de toutes sortes de quadrams ou horloges solaires.": p. 87-98.
- Dedicated to Louis XIV.
- Added engraved title page, signed "I. Le Pautre".
- Title within ornamental border; text within ruled border; head- and tailpieces.
- Signatures: ã⁴ A-H⁶ I².
- Leaf C2 signed C3; E2 signed E3.
- Error in pagination: p. 99 misnumbered "98".
- Last page blank.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Craig D. Ritchie Bequest Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's description laid in.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in contemporary limp vellum.
- Cited in:
- Houzeau & Lancaster. Astronomie (1964 éd.), 15332
- OCLC:
- 626795172
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